Easter Eggs

You know what I just noticed?  As I was sitting here, staring at my last blog entry, waiting for inspiration to hit me, I noticed what I thought was a little black speck on my MacBook screen.  Only when I reached over to wipe it off, I realized that it wasn’t on my screen, but actually on the webpage itself. And it wasn’t a black speck.  It was a tiny little smily face emoticon dealio, placed there by the deisgner of the template I’m using.

I love shit like that.

Random little, inconsequential treats.  Small, playful gifts left behind, planted by someone for no purpose other than to give someone else, a stranger, just a tiny moment of glee. Reminds me of some of the Brownie good deeds I did as a very young girl.  Dropping happy messages on the ground, written on scraps of paper, never really knowing if anyone would ever find them, or if they’d end up in a bird’s nest, or washed away with the rain, into a storm drain with other street debris.

It’s fun to find these gems.  It’s fun, too, to hide them.  So there it is.  A challenge for today:  do something small today that may make someone else happy for no reason, even if it’s just for a split second.  See if it doesn’t make you feel a little giddy too.

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P.S.  — Did you spot the smiley?  It’s up there on the top right corner of the home page. 

P.P.S — I just realized that the smiley only shows up on FireFox (or “Fox Fire” as my elderly website visitors seem determined to call it).

image from:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevewall/2349850548/